Peonies

Sitting on the front room table cheering my soul. They were accompanied by cute carnations, but Mismatch is currently making it her mission to snap the stalks of the latter. The flower arrangement looks increasingly battered.The peonies remain undaunted, perhaps because their flowers start like curiously wrapped golf balls, and turn into bouffy strawberry sundae pom poms bigger than her head.

Game of Thrones the TV series is way cooler than GoT the books. Well do I recall groaning at the latter - I always felt that Tywin Lannister never needed to be smart, he just needed to wait for everyone else to be stupid. This adaption is so much better! Of course I love the Starks, and yes, Tyrion's great, but Tywin? There is only one Lannister and that is Charles Dance.